And of course with the gray training wheels and hard in pursuit of APL Spinel, it’s

Ellen McAllister (1966 Wisconsin), here neck-n-neck with Amy C. McAllister (1975 Louisiana). Ellen may have appeared on this blog more often than any other tug; here … with some additional lettering on her flanks … I believe is her debut post.

The tug only visible as an upper wheelhouse is Potomac. The bridge just beyond the flottage is the Queensboro . . . memorialized in this song.

Potomac (2007 and built along the Bayou Lafourche . . . third foto) moves neck-n-neck with . . .

Resolute (1975 Oyster Bay, NY), she currently with the most fibrous fendering in the sixth boro. In between the two is Weddell Sea (2007 Rhode Island).

And of course you recognize the tallest portions of Manhattan, a few miles across the Upper Bay looking across the southeastern tip of Bayonne, NJ.

Tug TENACIOUS owned by Ryba Marine Construction spent many years in the sixth boro as Mobil Oil Company’s MOBIL 8 7 renamed TATARRAX. http://www.aukevisser.nl/mobil/id1051.htm. She remained in the sixth boro after being sold to John McKay (New York Towing Corp.) in the early 90’s as NAN McKAY. *Tenacious* 281119 was delivered from Philadelphia to the Ryba Marine Construction Company at Cheboygan, Michigan, in late 2005, and is still at Cheboygan (although I note officially owned by C & T Equipment LLC). She was built as *Mobil 8* in 1960 by Ingalls SBCorp at Pascagoula, MS, as hull no. 135 for the Socony Mobil Oil Cormpany, New York. She was sold in 1991 and renamed *Tattarax,* sold and renamed *Nan McKay* in 1993, and became *Tenacious* in 1995, owned by Clearwater Marine Towing, Inc., Folsom, PA. Original dimensions: 80.3 x 25.5 x 10; 169 gt, 115 nt. She is single-screw, with an 16-567-E EMD, 1600-bhp.